Lauro Fred Cavazos Jr. was an American educator and politician.
He served as the United States Secretary of Education and was the first Hispanic to serve in the United States Cabinet.
Cavazos Jr. was born on January 4, 1927, in Kingsville, Texas, United States to Lauro F. Cavazos Sr. and Tomasa Quintanilla.
He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in zoology from Texas Tech University, and a Ph.D. in physiology in 1954 from Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, Iowa.
As a Democrat, Cavazos served as Secretary of Education from August 1988 to December 1990 amid the Republican Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations but was forced to resign during an investigation into improper use of frequent flyer miles in December 1990.
Following his resignation as Secretary of Education, he returned to the faculty of Tufts University where he has served as Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine since then.
Lauro Cavazos Cause Of Death: How Did Lauro Cavazos Die?
According to sources, Lauro Cavazos Jr. died in Concord, Massachusetts on March 16, 2022, at the age of 95.
However, the cause of the death was not revealed.
Cavazos is survived by his wife Peggy Ann Murdock Cavazos and ten children.